Portal:Current events/2020 January 8
January 8, 2020 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2019–20 Persian Gulf crisis,2020 Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Iraq,
- Iran begins Operation Martyr Soleimani, launching ballistic missiles at several United States Armed Forces facilities in Iraq, including Al Asad Airbase. (ABC News)
- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issues a statement warning regional countries not to allow the United States military to launch attacks on Iran from their territory or they "will be targeted." (AP)
- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) bans all commercial flights from operating in the airspaces over Iraq, Iran, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in response to the Iranian missile attacks on U.S. forces. (The Jerusalem Post)
Disasters and accidents
- Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
- A Boeing 737 plane with 176 people on board crashes while taking off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport. (Bloomberg)
Law and crime
- Aftermath of the Sagamihara stabbings
- The trial of Satoshi Uematsu, a young Japanese man who has admitted to stabbing 19 disabled people to death at a care center in 2016, begins. The rampage ranks among the country's worst mass killings. His lawyer is expected to enter a plea of not guilty on grounds of diminished capacity. Uematsu will be handed a sentence on March 16 and could receive the death penalty. (Channel News Asia)